Formula 1

Agoda Revs Up for the Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix Agoda is revving up for the 2010 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix with special offers that are sure to go fast. Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) March 18, 2010 -- Agoda, Asia's global hotel site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline.com, is revving up for the 2010 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix with special offers that are sure to go fast. This year's Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix is set to transform the sub... Read Full Story

With luck, the deadly dull Bahrain Grand Prix was not an unfortunate one-off but the first in a parade of mind-blowingly boring races that will ruin the Formula One season. Because a complete lack of racing spectacle could be just what is needed to finally force the remarkably conservative sport to swallow its medicine and accept radical changes that would a) enable cars to actually overtake each other and b) give fans what they want, which is races consistently worth watching and not the... Read Full Story

Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Complete First Season Recommended “Nothing ever bad happens in the suburbs.” A pleasant surprise. Warner Bros. has released Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Complete First Season , a 5-disc, 21-episode collection of the 1983-1984 premier season of this light, charming action/adventure comedy/romance series. I must confess I didn’t catch too many episodes of Scarecrow and Mrs. King during its original four-year run … Read more on DVD Talk BA-Insight... Read Full Story

A DREAM START FOR LOTUS RACING 14 March 2010 Six months of very hard work finally came to as successful a conclusion as the team could have hoped for on Sunday afternoon in Bahrain, with both Lotus Racing cars finishing the race, Heikki in 15th and Jarno in 17th (provisional positions) in the opening round of the 2010 Formula One™ World Championship. Jarno Trulli (Lotus Racing chassis T127/3) "I made a good start and avoided the accident at the second corner but found myself in the gravel... Read Full Story

Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: Germany Hits Back After Italy’s Schumacher Criticism: The German press has hit back after its Italian colleagues were scathing of Michael Schumacher’s comeback performance in Bahrain. After the former Ferrari driver finished sixth behind his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, the Genoa-based Il Secolo XIX newspaper crowned him the “world champion of arrogance”. La Gazzetta dello Sport joked that the German failed to turn up in the island... Read Full Story

Much has been made in the newspapers this week about F1's not so tantalizing start to the Grand Prix calendar. So much hype had surrounded the driver pairing and, of course, the return of 7-time world champion Michael Schumacher that there was inevitably going to be a sense of anti-climax. To compare F1 to a tin of Dulux Paint drying on a wall, as in The Times, is a bit extreme, but the world has spoken. Bernie Ecclestone, Formula 1's commerical rights holder, has urged patience for the new... Read Full Story

Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Post this to MySpace Subscribe to the comments for this post? Jacques Villeneuve, Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill catch up on the grid. There weren’t just plenty of former World Champions on the starting grid at Sunday’s Bahrain GP – there were plenty in the paddock as well. Here Jacques Villeneuve, Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill (all World Champions with Williams) shoot the... Read Full Story

If you were able to get up on Sunday morning to catch the first race of the 2010 Formula 1 season in Bahrain, then not only did you get to see a dope race, you got to see Ferrari rise back to the top of the podium with first and second place finishes. Yeah, they only got the top spots because Sebastian Vettel’s car broke down, but whatever. If the pre-season testing and the Bahrain Grand Prix are any indication, Scuderia Ferrari is gonna be a beast. To celebrate their victory, we thought it... Read Full Story

vettel : Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who can not be a better start to his career with Ferrari on the spot to earn the adulation of the ‘Tifosi’ with victory in Bahrain. Alonso passed team mate Felipe Massa at the beginning, and then took the initiative of German Sebastian Vettel when he had an electrical problem that cost them power. “It is clear that any victory means a lot,” said Alonso. “There are a lot of work for any victory coming from the team, also coming from all drivers. We have... Read Full Story

Font size: Reuters Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso of Spain pours rose water over his head on the podium after he won the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain on March 14. (AP Photo)   MANAMA, March 14 (Reuters): Fernando Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix and led a Ferrari one-two in a dream debut with the Italian glamour... Read Full Story